You can already play your training wheels/crutch bvcs xD.

I hope when they talk about Bone Synergies they mean Teeth, Bonewall/Prison, and CE. If Nec becomes a problem, just play Windy Druid.

why bro? hammer necro is gonna be completely balanced

Will need to switch playstyle from v/c to v/t in this case

I mean I'm not complaining about a Hammer Necro. If my Spears do 12k, I'd be over the moon.

D2 purists are the boomers of gaming. I too loved the original but it needed updates to continue living for another 20 years.

PvP has become objectively worse every time blizzard has touched their own game for more than a decade ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For me it’s not so much a purist thing so much as it’s a dislike for the irritating way studios approach improvements.

The issue is that we expect them to come at an angle that was never intended. They probably said "yeah, let's make hostility to other players a feature. We'll just scale the damage down to xxx percent since all our skills are geared towards PVM."

Pvp exists around the fact that us players have to dictate rules decided on which is "fair" and which isn't, and even that changes from circumstance to circumstance. Or how we have to rely on bugs and broken mechanics to make the characters "balanced".

And to add the fact that only a mere fraction of the people care enough to keep it alive just shows this is going to be the trend whether you guys like it or not. Adjust the rules accordingly, and don't expect anyone else but you guys to care.

It’s a game. It doesn’t really matter what is intended.
What matters is the ways in which your players interact with and enjoy your game.

When you start removing things people like for no better reason than “it wasn’t intended” you’re actively sabotaging your consumers. Fix the things that hurt the game first, so you can hide behind the “intended” excuse later when you remove animation cancelling for no discernible reason.

they mentioned about keeping it balanced for pvp